Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
